Earlier this year, India Currents was selected to join Documented’s inaugural newsroom cohort for Building Bridges: An Immigrant Media Training Program.
Running from January to June 2026, the initiative is providing intensive, hands-on support to six newsrooms as we build editorial products rooted in inclusive, ethical, and high-quality journalism — created for and with immigrant communities like you.
As part of that process, we ran a community needs assessment and asked you a direct question: what does India Currents need to cover that no one else is?
The hundreds of you who answered, didn’t hold back.
You told us you’re tired of the success story. You want someone to cover the sandwich generation juggling aging parents and demanding kids, the discrimination that doesn’t go away no matter how long you’ve been here, the cultural identity that’s fraying quietly across generations, and the grief that doesn’t have a word in any of the many languages you speak. You told us you trust your WhatsApp groups, that you read on email and want it short, and that you’ve never quite seen your actual life reflected in an Indian-American publication.
What we heard is this: the Indian-American resident navigating what it actually means to grow old, stay whole, and belong here has no publication that treats their private life as the story worth telling.
So we’re building something new: three monthly newsletters, each anchored to a different part of the immigrant life in the United States: Aging and Caregiving, Belonging, and Culture.
We’re in the testing phase now, and before we launch, we want to make sure we get it right before we launch.Â
If you’d like to be one of the first readers to give us your honest reaction, email us at prachi@indiacurrents.com
